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Biographies of women: G - L, 1973 - 1996

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9

Scope and Contents

In this folder are interviews and articles about labor organizers, including Bessie Hillman (organizer and labor educator with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America); Ida Klaus (a labor lawyer who served as chief counsel of the National Labor Relations Board); Alice M. Lord (cigar maker and early organizer with the Women’s Trade Union League); Grace Hartman (Canadian labor leader and president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees); Hannah Shapiro Glick (garment worker and Chicago labor activist); Dorothy Healey (California labor organizer and political activist); Dolores Huerta (co‑founder of the United Farm Workers and a leader in farmworker rights) and more.

Dates

  • 1973 - 1996

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English, Spanish, and Chinese.

Extent

5 cubic feet

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

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